Yesterday was not a great day for me - truly a Monday. A blue Monday. We got through it, thankfully, but it wasn't a day I'd like to repeat. Thank goodness for animals and animal-related chores that force a person outside and into activity. And outside ones head.
I believe the nature of humans is optimistic. Here we've been struggling along in this rotten economy for years now and still we think that any minute it will turn around. Next year will be different. And sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, but we're still going to think that year after year. It keeps us going and it gives us the energy to plan and dream for that next "thing" - whether it is a new business venture or the one we already have taking off like a rocket.
I sometimes get discouraged in my studio when I can't make the things in my head manifest through my hands but I remind myself over and over that it takes doing it 5,000 times in order to get it right. There's going to be a lot of junk along the way. I need my optimism to kick in so that I keep going down to the studio and working.
We're going through a bit of a scary time with the economy just beginning to climb out of the tank and big changes for me in terms of work and income. Throwing your eggs into the basket of entrepreneurship isn't the most calming of moves. Optimism is what keeps us moving forward - along with faith in ourselves and each other, and oh, yes - a bit of stubbornness.
This is it - this is the life we have and we are midway through it. No use looking back and wondering about the choices we made. There is only moving forward. And some days, some Mondays, it is just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and getting through it.
